Housing market

It's nice seeing about 20 people in front of every available placard fighting an invisible timer for who knows how long lol. Reminds me of trying to farm against bots for NM's in FFXI.

It's about as good as running to houses that look like you can buy them but can't.

I understand the reasoning behind this system, but it'd be nice if the game could have a visual indicator next to houses that I can actually buy so I don't waste my time running to stuff that was recently relinquished.

Also SE thanks again for the lobby error that placed me at #1000 in the queue.

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Originally Posted by GutsyBoozetank

It's nice seeing about 20 people in front of every available placard fighting an invisible timer for who knows how long lol. Reminds me of trying to farm against bots for NM's in FFXI.

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Careful! The last time I compared housing fight to NM camping in XI I got bitched at madly xD

At least HNM camping you only need to check back every 30 min...

I saw all those people in front of a few placards with busy tags up so I just logged, I can only assume those were vacancy or demolished plots so who knows how long they'll be waiting. I'll check back next month lol

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Originally Posted by Belisaire

Also SE thanks again for the lobby error that placed me at #1000 in the queue.

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Seems you got lucky, it was #2000+ for me lol

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Originally Posted by Belisaire

It's about as good as running to houses that look like you can buy them but can't.

I understand the reasoning behind this system, but it'd be nice if the game could have a visual indicator next to houses that I can actually buy so I don't waste my time running to stuff that was recently relinquished.

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Yeah the UI on this is bad. It doesn't even tell you *why* you can't buy it if you try. Saw more than one confused person this morning because very quickly Cactaur had exactly one medium left... which was locked.

The system itself is fine, but the UI doesn't do a good job of conveying what's going on to the user.

I only seen one other person run around when i got on, lots of small plots available and i was very surprised

Honestly, the invisible timer is great. It removes the resale of houses. There was always a crew on my server who bought everything right as soon as you could, wait a week while people complain and report dealers, then go sell discreetly and quote profitably

I went to the plot that I was eyeing for before the maintenance, and the moment I logged in, I snatched the plot. Took no more than 10 seconds.